rec.arts.movies.past-films

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> On Sep 22, 5:09 pm, Undecided wrote:
>> Stone me wrote:
>> > Have there been any films that have a quite inoccuous event, which
>> > triggers off a chain of events which are the main line of the plot?
>>
>> You mean like that little fender bender which led to the great war of
>> *The Tin Men*?
>
> Something Similar happens in Ragtime
>
I did have in mind a plot that might follow something like a dropped
bus ticket, or a child's balloon, rather than to lead each scene from
one character to another.
Someone picks up the ticket and say takes a ride. Something about
the ride affects someone else, say someone misses a bus ride that
at first seems unimportant, but like dominoes, each event leading to
another, perhaps of increasing moment, while events stay
disconnected.
I still think I've seen it done. Perhaps a Euro film.

I liked the "Tin Men". The film has a mission to show each event as
being related to the next rather than allowing the randomness of
events which sometimes effect part of everyones lives.

Not the same thing as I had in mind.

Sometimes just tiny unnoticeable events happen around us,
yet they can cause a path through life to be different.
Some just call it luck, of course.

Cheers,
Stone me.